PSYCHIATRIC EXAM

DURING a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director: “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalised?”

“Well,” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub; then we offer the patient a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.”

“Oh, I understand,” said the visitor. “A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup.”

“No,” the director replied, “a normal person would pull out the plug. Did you want a bed near the window?”